New submission from STINNER Victor: bpo-30523 added a new --list-cases command to regrtest to list test methods. It is able to list doctest tests in test_builtins, but not in test_extcall.
test_builtin doctest tests: haypo@selma$ ./python -m test test_builtin --list-cases|grep ^builtins builtins.bin builtins.float.as_integer_ratio ... test_builtins works because it uses: def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern): from doctest import DocTestSuite tests.addTest(DocTestSuite(builtins)) return tests Listing test methods of test_extcall doesn't work, the following command has no output (but succeed): ./python -m test test_extcall --list-cases test_extcall uses: def test_main(): support.run_doctest(sys.modules[__name__], True) I see two options: * Replace support.run_doctest() with doctest.DocTestSuite() in all tests * Enhance --list-cases to discover doctests. support.run_doctest() calls doctest.testmod(), but doctest.testmod() has no API to list tests. testmod() lists tests and directly runs them. Maybe --list-cases can reuse doctest.DocTestSuite(), I don't know. ---------- components: Tests messages: 296179 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Enhance doctest support in regrtest --list-cases type: enhancement versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30683> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com